Spread of signals of disintegration in the global system has started to accelerate rapidly in last several weeks; if Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, who are fleeing from imperial violence try to risk everything to get themselves on Greece, or even Germany, it might mean bad things going to happen. Progress is progress though, even it comes two-three years later then it was badly needed.. if thinking and action is not linked to local and global, in a skeletal fashion but conservatively narrowed down, failure for any positive systemic alternative becomes extremely inevitable. how to turn the tide now is the million lives question. Orsan

On 06 Sep 2015, at 20:11, george dafermos <[email protected]> wrote:

In a speech he gave (at the National Centre of Research and Technology Development), Alexis Tsipras underlined the significance of the commons and of peer production as growth levers for the productive transformation of the greek economy.

http://www.avgi.gr/article/5824896/tsipras-i-ereuna-kai-i-kainotomia-tha-bga...

An indicative excerpt:

"Our programmatic commitments focus on the following areas:[...] Reform of the legal framework for intellectual property with the aim of: - expanding the field of the knowledge commons, - facilitating the creation and support of commons-based peer production projects, - opening up and utilizing public intellectual property and patents that remain unexploited".

-G.

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